For more than a decade Andre D. Wagner has explored and documented New York street life, with a particular focus on the changing landscape of Bushwick, Brooklyn, where he has lived and worked since 2011. His work offers an intimate portrait of urban life shaped by connection, responsibility and care. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Wagner came to New York to pursue a degree in social work but ultimately found his voice through the camera. He is deeply committed to photographic processes, developing his own black-and-white negatives and making gelatin silver prints in his own darkroom. His work belongs to a lineage of American street photography that investigates the social landscape and addresses questions of race, class and identity, capturing the joys and hardships of Black life: moments of tenderness and distance, humor and melancholy, solitude and communion. This publication represents the 2025 Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize and features work made between 2014 and 2024.